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loquitor:
interesting relation to politics you have--did i not know better, i'd take you for an anarchist.
i read the federalist papers--they're kinda depressing in their patronising attitude toward the polity.
but my point stands.
as for the natural hierarchy thing--you've defended the position any number of times here, comrade. and it was the hierarchy of abilities--differences arranged as hierarchy. btw--i don't dispute that different folk are good are different things--the trick is in the linkages you make between that and a conception of political order. from what i remember, you argued an aristotelian line on this question.
the question of whether one should be bound by one's class origin is entirely different--a natural hierarchy need not entail it, all the more if you predicate it on a notion of some distribution of abilities. not the same thing, then.
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